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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates
God
Best
Good
Our
General
Blessings
Knows
Prayers
Us
Should
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
Life
Reality
Problem
Solved
Experienced
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal
Great
Intelligence
Small Minds
Extraordinary
Minds
Great Minds
Small
Concerned
Ordinary
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius
Wisdom
Goals
Action
Adjust
Steps
Reached
Obvious
Cannot
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates
Knowledge
You
Nothing
True
Know
Knowing
True Knowledge
Exists
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love
Madness
Some
Also
Always
Reason
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
Stress
Thought
Our
Weapon
Ability
Over
Another
Greatest
Greatest Weapon
Against
Choose
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Genius
Else
See
No-One
Talent
Target
Hit
Hits
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus
Freedom
World
Rebellion
Free
Become
Way
Only
Absolutely
Absolutely Free
Free World
Deal
Existence
Very
Act
Your
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life
Education
You
Learning
Book
Born
Examination
Finish
Read
Pass
End
Die
Process
Moment
Whole
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Life
Others
Able
Give
Self
Part
Most
Been
Large
Large Part
Satisfying
Thing
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
Life
Dark
Fear
Light
Men
Easily
Real
Tragedy
Child
Forgive
Afraid
Who
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius
Wealth
Poverty
Country
Something
Badly
Well
Governed
Ashamed
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
Anaxagoras
Unseen
Glimpse
Appearances
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu
Fight
Enemy
Fighting
Our
Consists
Battles
Excellence
Supreme
Without
Breaking
Conquer
Resistance
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
Nature
Wealth
He
Content
Least
Richest
Who
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
Good
People
Bad People
Will
Good People
Way
Tell
Bad
Responsibly
Find
Laws
Around
While
Them
Act
Need
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
Work
Best
Leadership
People
Will
Leader
Aim
Say
Ourselves
He
Know
His
Exists
Did
Done
Fulfilled
Barely
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
You
Age
Remember
Speed
Once
Pick
Over
Hill
Up
Begin
Just
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus
Man
King
Kingdom
Blind
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu
War
Win
First
Seek
Go
While
Victorious
Then
Warriors
Defeated
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates
Death
Blessings
Greatest
May
Human
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thoughts
Feelings
Our
Darker
Shadows
Simpler
Always
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope
Man
Reality
Worst
Evils
Prolongs
Because
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato
Knowledge
Ignorance
Medium
Between
Opinion
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Socrates
Knowledge
You
Nothing
True
Know
True Knowledge
Meaning
Meaning Of
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